John Hussman's Profile:

Dr. Hussman is the president and principal shareholder of Hussman Strategic Advisors, the investment advisory firm that manages the Hussman Funds. He is also the President of the Hussman Investment Trust. Dr. Hussman manages Hussman Strategic Growth Fund, which invests primarily in U.S. stocks, and Hussman Strategic Total Return Fund, which invests primarily in U.S. Treasury and government agency securities.

From the fund inception in July 2000 to Oct. 31, 2008 , his Hussman Strategic Growth Fund averaged 9.9% a year, and has a cumulative gain of 118%, while the S&P500 lost more than 23%. For the 12 months ended Oct. 31, 2008 , his fund lost 0.3%, while the S&P500 lost more than 40%.

Prior to managing the Hussman Funds, Dr. Hussman was a professor of economics and international finance at the University of Michigan . His academic research centers on market efficiency and information economics. Dr. Hussman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University (1992), and two degrees from Northwestern University : a Masters degree in education and social policy (1985) and a bachelors degree in economics (1983, Phi Beta Kappa).

John Hussman (Trades, Portfolio), in my view,displays an arrogance (that is, writes freely available weekly columns that - over the last five years - has basically labelled the market expensive, using criteria that, I think, he believes is only available to him )and market-ignorance (that is, he writes as one actually believing he can forecast the market's future - despite his forecasts and investment performance being consistently grossly inadequate.

I believe that, because of the above serious personality associated inappropriateness, John Hussman (Trades, Portfolio) should not be entrusted to manage others' investment funds.

My resultant opinion is that all investors remove their funds from his management.

How can you follow the investment methodology of Dr.John Hussman (Trades, Portfolio), when his fund has been loosing money for the past 5 years, and is rated 1 star only by Morningstar rating?
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